Root mean square

FES showed significant decreases in action potential onset and improved activity in the tibialis anterior during trials, but did not show any change after gait trials over 10 days of therapy compared to sham stimulation groups (Lairamore, Garrison, Bourgeon, and Mennemeier, 2014). In a study of 58 stroke patients undergoing FES for improvement of gait, the FES group was shown to decrease the muscle co-activation index of the quadriceps/hamstring to a significantly greater degree than in placebo controls (Zhimei, Wenwen, Tiebin, Wei, and Rong, 2016). Hara, et. al (2008) investigated EMG data in FES of the upper extremity using an RCT of 20 patients over 5 months. In the post-treatment group, surface EMG data showed vastly increased root mean square values at maximum recruitment of the EDC both 3 months into treatment and at the end of the 5-month treatment period (ibid). Hara 's results also showed improvements in finger flexor function on the modified Ashworth scale, 10-CMT and 9-PHT tests (ibid). In dystonic patients, FES has been documented as a novel treatment for lower extremity spasticity in Parkinson patients. In one case report, a patient with dystonic plantarflexion used a device daily for eighteen months, experiencing gradual improvements in endurance and balance (Barrett, Levy, Fahn, O 'Dell, and Bressman, 2012). The patient had a 20% improvement in 6-minute walk test and notably required less stimulation over time to achieve clinically significant…

Introduction: The use of electromyography (EMG) to monitor muscle tissue from surface skin provides important information about the components of electrical activity—namely motor unit (MU) activation—during a muscle contraction (Cashaback, Cluff & Potvin, 2013). Observing electrical activity of a muscle with EMG is a user friendly and non-invasive tool researchers use when investigating muscle physiology (Camata et al., 2009). EMG is commonly used to correlate EMG signal with fatigue by…

Aim The aim of this assignment is to investigate the method to correct the power factor within an AC power generation system. Once the power factor is found we shall improve the power factor in said theoretical circuit by modifying the existing one and calculating the differences this makes to the output across the circuit as a whole. Then we shall use a circuit design software package to confirm our theoretical results and identify whether our improved mathematical skills have solved the task…

moment education is a big part of my life. I am still finishing up my time at high school. I say that because I feel like my high school is more of a prison than a school. I am required to go there work eight hours a day five days a week with a little twenty minute break for lunch. Honestly, school is a part time jail cell. Even though I do not like being forced to learn I still go, because I know what I achieve now will help me later. I know I have been told over and over I will use Algebra in…

Before the man even looked at him, he climbed onto the stage and began writing on the stone. “Can I clear a few things up?” he said. “The book, the title is written in Akkadian. It says, On Triangles, written by Sudines. And the spell? It’s a theorem that can find the length of the hypotenuse of any right triangle. It’s amazing, but it’s not witchcraft.” Using the chalk he sketched out two square frames, each filled with different shapes. “The square frames are equal in size, but there are…

calculated by comparing the mean values before and after this time point. The maximum T-test statistic value and the time is picked up. Then the probability of observing a maximum T-test statistic less than the observed maximum T-test value in a randomly drawn time series is calculated using an approximation function generated from Monte-Carlo experimentation. If the probability is greater than a given criteria (PROB), the time series are split at this time point. The BGHS method will further…

What is your Cage? What keeps you back from freedom? Maya Angelou wrote an amazing and entertaining autobiography titled I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, about her hard life growing up as a black girl from the South. Among the hardships are things known as "cages" as stated as a metaphor from Paul Dunbar's poem "Sympathy." "Cages" are things that keep people from succeeding in life and being everything they want to be. Some of Maya Angelou’s cages include being black in the 1940's and her…

(-- removed HTML --) The Ya-te-veo tree, meaning "I-See-You" tree, is a carnivorous plant native to the jungles of the Old World, and regions of Outer kingdoms such as Africa and Central America. It possesses a thick, short tree trunk consisting of greenish brown bark, and several long tendrils which resemble huge serpents, darting side-to-side as if they were engauged in an angry conversation. There are five glowing green eyes at the top of the trunk, placed in such a way to allow full…

Problem: Among three basil plants that will be watered differently, how much water will a basil plant need daily to stay healthy if I pour a quarter of a pitcher in plant A, a half pitcher in plant B, and one pitcher in plant C? Hypothesis: My assumption is that plant B will be the healthiest because it seems that plant A will have an insufficient amount of water, and plant C will have too much water, making the basil plant too turgid, resulting into temporary to permanent wilting, leading to…

Oxford dictionary defines ‘’Root’’ as family, ethnic, or cultural origins, and the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support. It is taught that when roots go deeper what is on the ground gets richer. Roots which mean origins symbolize history of a culture, literature, customs, and traditions of a society. The most convenient example of planting seeds and watching the process of roots is how American society created their own way of living. American society’s history goes…